Important execs and the workplace

My (top-level) management is my parents. They're pretty cool. My immediate bosses are ace too, though one of them is a bit of a perfectionist with a fantastic memory, which doesn't lie too well with my slightly scattergun approach at times.

Currently I'm required to give daily status every EOD, ontop of the weekly meeting with the director. My project leader has another weekly development status meeting ontop of this alongside separate weekly meetings for schema review, API review and tech review. My manager is great though. Spends most of his time putting out fires and the rest trying to recruit the department to audition for his latest play.
[On a separate note: I just ate an extremely tasty sandwich!]

Mine let me come along to the meeting she scheduled yesterday. On the 40th floor of the Swiss Re tower with 360 degree views of London.

(we're organising a dinner there)

my job is basically to write status reports, so I guess that's what I'm "empowered" to do.

I am invisible, unless something goes wrong.

my manager is pretty crummy, but the director here is awesome.

Oh god, Noodles, are you trying to depress me?

My old manager, the one that just left, was GREAT, she really listened to me, really got to action on concerns that I raised, tried to make the workplace better. Very empowering.

The ones that are left are of the "we don't care what happens to people so long as the reports get filled out" variety. Which sucks big hairy moosecock.

At least I have two months to find a new job.

this came to a head yesterday. they keep asking me for my recommendations about which software to use and then ignore what i say and use something else. - we are about to order four new servers and asked which linux distribution we wanted preinstalled. we're currently using FedoraCore 1 and we've had no trouble with it so i suggested that or FedoraCore2 (list price £0). two days later they (management) come back and 'ask' me again suggesting that we use RedHat AS (list price £1500 per server) which is a) an unknown b) way more than we need and c) expensive. (and having been told the cost they start asking about if it's possible to get one full version and then just install it on all 4 machines)

this comes two weeks after they've switched *back* to prefering MySQL after i'd spent two weeks moving everything over to Postgres which i recommended against using in the first place (and one of the reasons for choosing MySQL again seems to be 'relative ease of porting to Oracle' which just boggles my mind). 'a communication breakdown' they called it. my choices for the documentation wiki and trouble ticket system also got overruled. why do they even bother asking in the first place?

Man, that sucks ass, A. Kill them all with knives.

My manager is nice.